Issue with playlists when path has changed

[Mark_Sealey]

Albert-Phlip,

…not quite the point if I may…

Of course. I don’t want to complicate or confuse things. So stop me if I’m failing to understand. I’m taking my cue from:

@Albert-Philip_Burger

…Somehow when changing the path of a folder, this is not reflected in the m3u file when exporting a playlist.

So I’m imagining that you may have one of two options:

1. not change the path to/location of the folder
2. if you do that, edit the .m3u file to accommodate the change.
   When you say…

…the path of a folder…

You do mean the folder in which the music itself resides, and not the one where the Playlist is, don’t you?

Both are in your Roon watched folder, aren’t they?

I would expect Roon to cope with (music) Album folders being moved.

But I wouldn’t think it could go into the text strings of any .m3u file - particularly when you remember that a Playlist which you create entirely inside Roon is handled differently from one you build yourself, as seems to amount to being the case, doesn’t it - given the export-Walkman-import process.

I did learn that it’s often necessary (and actually quite easy) to edit those .m3u files in order to get Roon to find the Albums again.

it would mean I would have to remember and go through the process of manually correcting the paths whenever any song of any of those albums is used in an exported playlist. That’s hardly practical beyond a one-off.

I believe - others will correct me if I’m wrong - that that might indeed actually be the case with Playlists you build or manipulate yourself. @DDPS was extremely helpful in that thread, where you might find much useful information and directions from the experts.

Not sure why I’d use excel for this, TextEdit is a much more appropriate tool, so maybe you didn’t mean editing the m3u itself?

No, you did understand, Albert-Philip: a spreadsheet because it retains columns and you can more easily make bulk changes - if even to the path string portion of each of the .m3u’s lines - in one fell swoop.

So in the example I built/edited for the Beethoven-Brendel (which I’d be happy to send you in case it might serve as a useful template) a single edit to Column A was all that was needed to fix it.